Effects of European Exploration

European footholds

Slave Trade

New African States

Mombasa: An important trade center in Eastern Africa

Malindi: A major trade hub in East Africa

Plantations: A big farm where slaves did manual labor

Affonso I: King of Kongo who was against the slave trade.

The Boers: Dutch farmers that settled in Cape Town. They drove out the natives, enslaved them, and killed them.

Asante Kingdom: Kingdom in Western Africa that became rich from the slave trade and gold trade.

Osei Tutu: Man who won control of the Kumas (a trading city). He unified the Asante Kingdom

Oyo Empire: Empire in West Africa that traded slaves to the Europeans.

Monopoly: Control of a business.

Cape Town: Area in Southern Africa that held the 1st European settlement for sailing and supplying ships.

Missionaries: Europeans who came to Africa to spread Christianity.

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